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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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It teems to reft in the pleafure of the Stranger, whe-ther he will chufe to fend over any Perfon of his 0Wn ;Court, or give his Procuration to fome one of the So- ’vereign’s Subjects, to receive his Stall, and in his Name fcito take Poffcffion of it ; the latter of which hath been J ; 1done feveral times, out of defire to favour fome of our pNobility with this Honour, of which many inftancesmight be given. 0''.

It hath fometimes happned, that a ProBor for the In- -r •ftallation of a Stranger, hath been appointed and nomina- 1ted by the Sovereign of the Order, though the Principalhad nam'd another before : Thus it fell out in the cafe of ftK 1Maurice, Prince ot Orange, Anno io Jac. I. who having (SPideputed Count Henry his Brother, to be inftalled for him, i*®and he having put to Sea in Order thereto, but by reafon #of contrary Winds not arriving in England before the Day >appointed for his Installation, the Sovereign and Kjiights- S*!iCompanions ordered that Lodomck, of NaJJau, Kinfman to s* ,t3the eleft Prince, (hould take Pofleflion of his Stall on his utt'behalf ; A cafe fomewhat like, was that of John George, tas;Duke of Saxony, who fent over his Procuration to John,

Earl of Bath ; and he being detained in the Weft on ex- toitiiltraordinary Occafions, when St. George' s Feaft was held lrt/i, iat iVindfor, Anno 11 Car. II. wrote to the Chancellor of iCkjltthe Order, to obtain the Sovereign’s Difpenfation, for TiiniJnot appearing in'the Name of his Principal ; who repre- -h any ifenting his humble requeft to the Sovereign, in a Chapter ike iheld on the Eve of the laid Feaft, he was pleas'd to grant ' apisiit, and appointed Heneage, Earl of iVinchelfea, who per- iekhform’d the Service. There is alfo an ancient Example iaeaof this kind, Anno § Hen.V. where the Sovereign noni- a®nated the Lord Fit% Hugh, ProBor for the King of Den- ait [_,tiiar!^; which yet was not done, till after the Sovereign ijjfjfhad been certified that the faid King had been itiveftcd,and obliged himlelf by Oath to the obfervadon of the . dStatutes. [jg „

In like manner it is recorded, that the Earl of Cleveland ^ w .was by the Sovereign appointed Deputy for the Inftal-lation of Gufiavus 'Adolphus, King of Sweden, and yet not ^unlike, but this might be with confent of the faid King,though the Annals herein are (ilenr,

 
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